Thinking About Human Memory

Humphreys, Michael S.

ISBN 10: 1107451922 / ISBN 13: 9781107451926

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking About Human Memory
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107451922
• ISBN 13: 9781107451926
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 11 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology, Psychiatry & Psychotherapy

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Synopsis

Thinking About Human Memory provides a novel analytical approach to understanding memory that considers the goals of the memory task, the cues and information available, the opportunity to learn, and interference from irrelevant information (noise). Each of the five chapters describing this approach introduces historical ideas and demonstrates how current thinking both differs from and is derived from them. These chapters also contain analyses of current problems designed to demonstrate the power of the approach. In a subsequent chapter, the authors discuss how memory is controlled by the environment, by others, and by ourselves, and then apply their insights to the problem solving of children, our hominin ancestors, and scrub jays. Finally, the questions of how to define episodic memory and how to investigate phylogenetic and developmental changes in memory are addressed. This book will appeal to memory researchers, including applied researchers, and advanced students.

About the Authors

Michael S. Humphreys is Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Kerry A. Chalmers is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle, Australia.